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ITEM Identifier: Dickinson Room

Piano stool; pedestal-based with hexagonal seat upholstered in plush; hexagonal pedestal flares to ring and base with three ball and ring feet; screw mechanism for raising and lowering seat. American, unknown maker; circa 1845., 1845. Digital

Piano stool; pedestal-based with hexagonal seat upholstered in plush; hexagonal pedestal flares to ring and base with three ball and ring feet; screw mechanism for raising and lowering seat. American, unknown maker; circa 1845. Digital Object
Piano stool; pedestal-based with hexagonal seat upholstered in plush; hexagonal pedestal flares to ring and base with three ball and ring feet; screw mechanism for raising and lowering seat. American, unknown maker; circa 1845. Digital Object

Dates

  • Creation: 1845.

Conditions Governing Access

The Dickinson Room and many of these objects can be viewed by guided tour Fridays at 2:00 p.m.

Examination of objects in the Houghton Reading Room requires advance notice, and the permission of the curator.

Extent

20 linear feet (68 items)

Physical Facet

Brazilian rosewood, Brazilian rosewood veneer, upholstery;

Dimensions

height 49.5 cm., diameter 35.5 cm.

General note

This stool most likely was acquired by Edward Dickinson when he purchased the pianoforte for his daughter Emily in 1845.

Repository Details

Part of the Houghton Library Repository

Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

Houghton Library’s Reading Room is free and open to all who wish to use the library’s collections.

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